It may in fact be correct that the doom and despair caused by climate change is counterproductive. But one of the reasons that it’s hard to overcome this is that there are a zillion other enormo
Biden is moving to create more national monuments and protect key parts of this beautiful nation from further development. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he will establish a new national m
I gave the keynote address for the Rhode Island Labor History Society’s annual Labor Day gathering. Despite the horrible weather (it rained 3 inches that day and more in some places in the state
I recently read Tom Turner’s biography of Sierra Club leader David Brower. It’s alright, more of the story by someone who knew him closely than a real deep historical examination. When dis
Thanks to right-wing extremism, anything in the world can now be part of the culture war. That very much includes wildfire. This article about how people in rural northern California see wildfire is p
I wanted to point you all to this Aaron Regunberg piece in The New Republic. I should state that I know him slightly. He almost won the lieutenant governor position in Rhode Island in 2018 as a Bernie
Better not do anything to fight climate change because the world totally has this under control. Temperatures in parts of India and Pakistan have reached record levels, putting the lives of millions a
There’s a concept pushed in recent years by environmental scholars that what capitalism does is create “cheap nature,” or the push to commodify the natural world in a way that rips t